Violence by Western actors is never blamed on Christianity or Western culture
Evidence
Of course no one has equated the Jonestown massacre or the destructive horror of the Oklahoma bombing or the devastation of Indochina with Christianity, or with Western or American culture at large; that sort of equation has been reserved for “Islam.” — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 119
Categorization
- SHARE: A crisp asymmetry worth sending to anyone who studies media framing or double standards in attributing collective blame.
- XREF: connects to: Christian violence is never generalized to all Christians, but Muslim violence is. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 354
Related
- Christian violence is individualized while Muslim violence is collectivized. (similarity 0.84)
- Popular blame of religious belief for violence remains scientifically untested (similarity 0.84)
- Christian violence is never generalized to all Christians, but Muslim violence is. (similarity 0.84)
- Western press praised illiberal Christianity but blamed only Islam for violence. (similarity 0.84)
- For Islam isolated violence offsets billions of peaceful examples, but not for white Christianity. (similarity 0.83)
- Violence by one Muslim is generalized to all while Christian violence is not (similarity 0.83)
- Christians attributed violence to Islam while practicing holy war themselves (similarity 0.82)
- Only Muslim violence is read as caused by the perpetrators’ religion (similarity 0.81)
- Fewer than one in a million Western Muslims per year turned to political violence (similarity 0.80)
- The claim that Muslims are intrinsically violent is sociologically inconceivable and unsupported. (similarity 0.79)
- Majorities in Western countries blamed Muslims for the cartoon conflict. (similarity 0.79)
- Religion gets invoked to explain violence committed by a tiny Muslim minority (similarity 0.79)
- The media codes only certain groups’ violence as religiously motivated (similarity 0.79)
- The West’s question should be why it fears Muslims, not why they hate us (similarity 0.79)
- A religion’s violence depends on context, not inherent character (similarity 0.78)